Research Interests

Use of stem cells to repair damaged hearts; Stem cell engineering

Biography

Dr. Roselle Abraham is co-director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of Excellence in the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute. She is also the center’s director of research. Dr. Roselle’s research ranges from diagnostic techniques and standards for cardiomyopathy to bioengineering stem cells to improve their effectiveness as therapy for cardiovascular disease, and she holds patents for stem cell applications.

Dr. Abraham graduated from Goa Medical College in India. She completed her internship in internal medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and her residency in internal medicine at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Abraham performed fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and in electrophysiology at the Mayo Clinic before joining Johns Hopkins University as a research associate in cardiovascular diseases. She joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2003 and also teaches bioengineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Abraham established the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Basic and Translational Research Program at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters, and has functioned as peer reviewer for over a dozen journals.